Ayrton Senna Quotes: The Straight-Talking Racer

‘And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.’

‘Fear is exciting to me.’

‘I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.’

‘Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.’

‘If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.’

‘Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.’

‘Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance. ‘

‘The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.’

‘And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.’

‘I felt as though I was driving in a tunnel. The whole circuit became a tunnel… I had reached such a high level of concentration that it was as if the car and I had ecome one. Together we were at the maximum. I was giving the car everything – and vice versa.’

‘These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.’